In an essay from 2005, one mother shares the lifetime of suffering beneath the clergy sex-abuse headlines. I am a mother of a son who was sexually abused...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
The editors interview Father Robert Barron. "For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father...
For many, it is one of those assuring, evocative aromas, the kind that launches a cascade of warm and welcome childhood memories and recollections of sacred...
In year two of the sex-abuse scandal, it it time for the laity to brush up on their leadership skills? About 200 laypeople from some 50 Chicago-area parishes...
The priest shortage is generating some creative solutions to parish staffing, but they require a little flexibility and a healthy sense of humor on the part of...
Robert Silva, a pastor and spiritual director who has taught at the University of the Pacific and the Catholic University of America, talks about how his...
Once ubiquitous, the parish priest is disappearing into thin air, with troubling effects on young Catholic imaginations. A few years ago while teaching, I...
Our readers have some strong ideas about how to build a better clergy–from training to ordination requirements to personal traits that make a priest...
Having taught in and studied seminaries for 20 years, Katarina Schuth sizes up the changes in today's seminaries and the men they are forming for the...
Celibacy isn't the problem, argues Father Andrew Greeley. It's the lifelong service to the priesthood that scares away young men. I've been doing...
